Goesaert v. Cleary

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Goesaert v. Cleary
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 19, 1948 Decided December 20, 1948
Full case name: Valentine Goesaert et al. v. Owen J. Cleary et al. Citations: 335 U.S. 464; 69 S.Ct. 198, 93 L.Ed. 163 Prior history: 74 F. Supp. 735 (E.D. Mich. 1947), probable jurisdiction noted, 68 S. Ct. 1340 (1948).
Holding
A state law prohibiting a woman from working as a bartender unless she was the wife or daughter of the bar owner did not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Court membership
Chief Justice: Fred M. Vinson Associate Justices: Hugo Black, Stanley Forman Reed, Felix Frankfurter, William O. Douglas, Frank Murphy, Robert H. Jackson, Wiley Blount Rutledge, Harold Hitz Burton
Case opinions
Majority by: Frankfurter Joined by: Vinson, Black, Reed, Jackson, Burton Dissent by: Rutledge Joined by: Douglas, Murphy
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. XIV, Mich. Stat. Ann. § 18990(1).

Goesaert v. Cleary, 335 U.S. 464 (1948), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court upheld a Michigan law which prohibited women from being employed as bartenders unless their father or husband owned the establishment.